Halloween Theme 1
Unless you’re reading through a feed reader, you already know that the brand new Halloween theme for 2008 is up here at Dolphin’s Dock. I wanted badly to do something fairly different than the standard “blog” layout (you know a column of content with a sidebar or two), but I found the reason that layout is so standard is because the traditional blog has content that fits that layout fairly nicely and it’s surprisingly hard to rearrange it in any meaningful way while maintaining the usability of the site. Hopefully I got close here.
I also wanted to use the theme as a means to further familiarize myself with the wonderful javascript library, jQuery. Now I know I’m really late to that particular party, but while I’ve obviously known about jQuery for a long time, I’m a designer not a developer so I assumed jQuery would be a little over my head. Turns out, I was very wrong; jQuery is easy. If I’ve overdone it a bit here, then let that be my excuse. The best was to learn is to do, so perhaps in the interest of learning I’ve done a bit more than I’d have done sheerly in the interest of design.
The theme has been tested in IE 6 & 7, Firefox, and Safari. There’s the little bonus of getting to see the number of comments in the headline bar for each post if you are using a non-IE browser, because doing so broke the layout in IE and I’m too lazy to go and try to figure out the problem for nothing more than a comment count (which is duplicated in the footer of the post when you expand it anyways). As always, feedback is appreciated.
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October 2nd, 2008
I like it. Good job!